Cases of malignant thymoma are rare. Rubaschow1compiled a list of thymic tumors described prior to 1911, including a series collected by Hoffman in 1896, which totaled fifty-two sarcomas, twelve carcinomas and ten tumors of various other types. Since then, barely a dozen had been reported, when one of us (Foot2) described a case in 1920; and only four reports are subsequently listed in theQuarterly Cumulative Indexof the American Medical Association to date. As the histology of malignant thymoma was presented and discussed fully in the 1920 article just referred to,2we shall limit ourselves to a summary of Ewing's excellent article on these tumors in his textbook on neoplastic diseases,3and to a brief review of an article by Symmers and Vance,4which has an important bearing on our case.
Journal Article A Criticism of Laboratory Routine in Modern Institutions of Pathology Get access Nathan Chandler Foot Nathan Chandler Foot From the Department of Surgical Pathology, Cornell University Medical College and New York Hospital, New York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1 May 1937, Pages 251–263, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/7.3.251 Published: 01 May 1937
A similar bacteriological table seems obvi- ous for the broncho-pneumonias separate from the lobar pneumonias.This is especially de- sired by anybody interested in the streptococcus, the importance of which has been increasingly realized with each succeeding month of the past winter and spring.It would bring out more clearly the true extent of the supposed relation between broncho-pneumonia and streptococci.This relation is of the greatest importance.It can be traced only by using thoroughly reliable data.The use of any other would yield re- sults of apparent value but really only mislead- ing.It is felt that our data, while serviceable for the purposes of the bacteriological tables presented, are not, however, sufficiently reliable for the determination of the relationship under discussion, because: «.Too many patients showing diffuse râles followed later by clinical and x-ray signs of consolidation not definitely either lobar or lobu- lar, were not followed up.Looking back we can only guess.We cannot justly say whether there was: i. Bronchitis developing broncho-pneumonic patches.ii. Bronchitis developing confluent-lobn- lar broncho-pneumonia.iii.Bronchitis developing lobar pneu- monia.b. Too many sputa were: i.Never sent to the laboratory.ii.There considered "defective specimens.' 'iii.Not examined for any streptococci.iv.Not classified as to whether the streptococci were hemolytic or innocent.v.Reported under a different classifica- tion on two occasions without any evidence in the clinical record of co- operation between the ward and the laboratory in deciding whether this divergence was due to: i. Faulty technic.ii. Reinfection with a different organism.iii.Super-infection with a dif- ferent organism.
Journal Article Peripheral Neurogenic Tumor Get access Nathan Chandler Foot Nathan Chandler Foot From the Department of Surgery, New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Clinical Pathology, Volume 6, Issue 1, 1 January 1936, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/6.1.1 Published: 01 January 1936
